Some time ago I saw a ”Stewardess Diet” mentioned somewhere. What the heck is it? A stewardess should know! So then I googled and found out that the stewardess diet was invented a thousand years ago when the stewardesses still had some weight limits. So the purpose of the stewardess diet is to lose a couple of kilos in four days. And I wanted to give it a try! I ended up doing the diet by my own instructions, depending on what vegetables we happened to have at home.

For the breakfast I was supposed to have half a grapefruit, but since I didn’t have them at home, I had a mandarin. Did it go wrong before I even got started? I ate the lunch super late, because we were out in the center during the day. By that time I was starving. The instructions said that I should have had green beans, but I preferred chickpeas instead. Same same. I seasoned them with garlic and pepper. Also two eggs and half a grapefruit. The dinner was salad, tomatoes and tuna. I also added olive oil, naughty me.

Now I had the grapefruits! The instructions said half a grapefruit, but I was reckless and squeezed the whole fruit’s juice. That green drink was not in the instructions either, it’s my multivitamin drink. The lunch was supposed to be chicken, but I preferred to have those beans Aws prepared to me. What are those beans called? I added some marinaded garlic gloves to give the salad some taste. For the dinner I had salad, that Aws again had prepared. It included tomatoes, salad, cucumber, those marinaded garlic gloves, onion, olives, lemon peel and a few nuts. The dessert was pineapple.

The breakfast was the same as before. For the lunch I had pollock, cauliflower, tomato and salad. The fish wasn’t so great without salt, but black pepper and lemon juice helped. For the dinner I had the rest of the fish, tomato, cucumber and tomato juice. I didn’t follow the instructions today either, but the idea was still the same. No carbs, fats or salt.

The last day, thank goodness! Last night I was already feeling very hungry. But this diet is not supposed to last more than four days anyway, so it’s ok. Today I had tomato, cucumber, chickpeas seasoned with garlic and a few marinated garlic gloves for lunch. For dinner I ate tomato, cucumber, two boiled eggs and those beans (I still now only the Arabic name for them). This day was also according to my own plan, but it is close enough to the instructions.

All in all, this diet was an interesting experiment. In three days I lost almos two kilos. I always weighted myself in the morning. The morning after the diet I didn’t remember to weight myself, so I don’t actually know how much I lost in four days. In the future I could imagine myself eating like this maybe one day in a month or the day after a party and a lot of party food. Of course the diet works as it was originally meant to, to lose relatively much of weight in a short time. I can’t still imagine why any normal person would need to lose weight fast, because normally those kilos come right back. However this diet could be a great start for a long term life style change!